List of Famous people born on October 8th

Kim Myung-min is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his leading roles in the television series Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-shin (2004), White Tower (2007), Beethoven Virus (2008), and Six Flying Dragons (2015-2016), as well as the films Closer to Heaven (2009) and the Detective K film series.

Yaakov "Kobi" Marimi is an Israeli singer and actor who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

Maximilian Hartung is a German sabre fencer and athlete activist. He is a four-time European Champion, team World Champion and two-time Olympic participant. He is chairman of the Athletes Commission in the DOSB and founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V. He was a member of the Sporthilfe supervisory board for four years, four years in the board of the German Fencing Federation and two years in the board of the German Olympic Comitee as the voice of the athletes. He completed his studies in politics, sociology and economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen and the Universteit Gent.

Tabea Zimmermann is a German violist.

José Renan Vasconcelos Calheiros Filho is a Brazilian economist and politician. He is currently governor of Alagoas since January 2015. He is affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.

Susanto Megaranto is an Indonesian chess player. In 2004, he became the youngest Indonesian ever to qualify for the title Grandmaster at 17, beating out Utut Adianto's record by four years. He won the Indonesian Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010. He graduated from Gunadarma University.

Hoyan Mok is a Hong Kong actress. She won the 1993 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and worked as an actress for TVB in the 1990s. She was president of Wai Yin Association in 2009–2010. Mok is married to Alex Fong Chung-sun who is also a Hong Kong actor.

Ángel Acosta Gómez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the WBO light flyweight title from 2017 to 2019. As an amateur, Acosta won the gold medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Ali Benarbia is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. As of 2009, he was a consultant and presenter for Al-Jazeera Sports in Doha.

Alan Posener is a British-German journalist. He is the son of the architectural historian Julius Posener.